Well the puppies are getting bigger and feeding a lot more!
Tilly is well and truly fed up of them, and refuses to go near the playpen, as she get's mobbed as soon as she tries to enter. The puppies literally jump on her and demand feeding, even if they have only just had a bowl full of puppy porridge! It's as if they have never been fed in their lives!
Tilly just stands there and lets them feed, with a resigned look on her face. The puppies are strong enough to simply stand underneath her and lift their heads and feed from her. They even hang on as she is jumping around the pen.
I have been gradually reducing the amount of liquid in the puppy porridge and making it a drier mixture in preparation for the dry kibbles. However, we tried adding some wet puppy food to try and make a bit of gravy with the soaked kibbles and this proved a step too far. The mixture must have been a bit too rich and we had several bouts of puppy diarrohea, which is not pleasant to clean up! Especially when the pups walk in it and then jump up at you leaving puppy pooh trails all down your sleeves! I'm not quite so bothered as I work from home and regularly live in my scruffs, however it didn't go down too well with my husband and his freshly laundered shirt prior to going to work in the morning. Pale pink with a hint of brown, did not go down too well!
Onto better news, all the puppies have sold! We are very pleased, as we have found lovely homes for all of them and it only took 2 weeks to do this! The kennel club and the Drakeshead website have been instrumental in finding the new owners. We are still getting enquiries and have already begun a reserve list.
Speak Your Mind